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...that could help defuse the fraught racial politics of the rebuilding process. Those grow out of the fact that many of the city's most flood-prone areas, like the Lower Ninth Ward, are home to a substantial number of its African-American residents, who look long and hard at any sign that the city may forbid them to return. The city has been eager to discourage piecemeal redevelopment, in which a handful of residents here and there try to re-establish themselves in vulnerable neighborhoods. But after Mayor C. Ray Nagin hinted last year that he would consider declaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Blank Canvas | 2/26/2006 | See Source »

...drain and pulled to dislodge blockages Mills said. Mills added that cleaners were also brought in to ‘sanitize surfaces’ before dinner, which allowed for Eliot students to return to their own dining hall last night to eat. Mills also confirmed that there was no flood damage to food stocks. Last Monday, a flood in the Leverett House dining hall shut the private dining room as well as the junior and senior common rooms, redirecting students to the Winthrop and Quincy dining halls. Plumbing problems may have been the cause of the Leverett water leakage, though...

Author: By John R. Macartney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eliot House Dining Hall Closes During Lunch, Staff Blames Clogged Sink | 2/21/2006 | See Source »

...cities have it quite as bad as Baltimore. The city's highest-crime areas tend to be close-knit, insular communities where everybody knows everybody else's business, including who's talking to the police. Mix in a high-stakes drug trade and a flood of handguns, and you have a recipe for a pitiless war on witnesses. Baltimore's problems first made national news in 2002 when a family of seven were killed in an arson attack after they helped police identify drug dealers in their neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Looking For A Few Good Snitches | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...attempt to determine the cause of the flood, maintenance workers inspected students’ quarters...

Author: By Matthew S. Lebowitz and Nina L. Vizcarrondo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Possible Sewage Leak Shuts Down Leverett Dining Hall | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

...Tucci ’06 and Joshua R. Klimkiewicz ’06, residents of Leverett’s D entryway, which contains the dining hall, said they awoke to the sound of a plumber knocking on their door to investigate possible links between plumbing problems and the flood...

Author: By Matthew S. Lebowitz and Nina L. Vizcarrondo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Possible Sewage Leak Shuts Down Leverett Dining Hall | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

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